News archive from 23 July 2015

As a force for bad, Lance Armstrong remains unstoppable. Long since banished from cycling, he can no longer ruin the Tour de France with his diabolical cheating, but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t discovered other ways to taint the event and the poor...

The Erie BayHawks, the Orlando Magic's D-League affiliate, have scheduled their tryouts for the 2015-16 season.
The first tryout will be held Sept. 13 in Orlando at Barnett Park.
The second tryout will be held Sept. 20 in Erie, Pa., at the Junker...

WINTER GARDEN - West Plant Street is the heart of Winter Garden, a brick road bubbling with fun and energy.
It boasts a splash pad, the Garden Theatre, an artesian market and a new microbrewery.
Compared to West Plant Street, East Plant Street has...

How vulnerable is your car to hackers?
That question has gained urgency after Wired magazine documented a staged incident in which hackers remotely disabled a Jeep SUV, leaving its hapless journalist driver stranded in a ditch.
The short answer is...

The Erie BayHawks, the Orlando Magic's D-League affiliate, have scheduled their tryouts for the 2015-16 season.
The first tryout will be held Sept. 13 in Orlando at Barnett Park.
The second tryout will be held Sept. 20 in Erie, Pa., at the Junker...

The longtime owner of Chilkoot Charlie’s, a Spenard watering hole that is perhaps Alaska’s best-known bar, is selling the business to a group of employees.
At the same time, a real estate group headed by the owners of the popular Bear Tooth and...

ROSSBURG, Ohio — The Camping World Truck Series returns to Eldora Speedway for the third consecutive year to contest the only race in NASCAR's three national series held on a dirt track. Follow along with USA TODAY Sports for all the updates...

The U.S. drug firm, Eli Lilly & Co., reported Wednesday that an experimental medication might slow mild Alzheimer's if people take it early enough, one of a handful of drugs in late-stage testing in the frustrating hunt for a better treatment....

CENTENNIAL, Colo. – Jurors who last week convicted James Holmes in connection with the 12 deaths and 70 injuries at a suburban Denver theater, are now beginning the state’s process for deciding whether he should be executed.
“Whatever sentence is...

Bart Starr had quite a meal Tuesday morning in Alabama — three pancakes and an omelet with three eggs and cheese.
It was made by his wife Cherry, his bride of 61 years. And it didn’t take him long to eat it.
“He fed himself the entire breakfast,”...

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and his “telling it like it is” campaign might be floundering in the national polls, but he has perhaps the most to gain should firebrand Republican Donald Trump’s presidential campaign fall off the...

Bank of America, which was dinged for "deficiencies" in its government stress test in March, is reshuffling its executive team, including replacing its chief financial officer.
Bank of America — the nation's largest bank behind JPMorgan...

Pope Francis will not set foot on U.S. soil for two more months, but for Catholic Charities in Washington, D.C., it is time to walk in his way.
That is the aim of a program launched Wednesday by Catholic Charities and the Archdiocese of Washington....

Former ESPN columnist and provocateur Bill Simmons has landed at HBO.
Dubbed "The Sports Guy," Simmons became a major multimedia star during his run at ESPN, which began in 2001 after he established himself as a passionate, highly...